Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-08
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
NEWS OFTHETWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

wood Chopplng on sunday Goats Ne
gro Boy Two Toes-The Coming Con
ventiOn of the N~vA, stores ManufAc-
turers' Association Bruuswick's p ost-
mastership said to he Not Worth
having.
GEORGIA.
The Merchants National Bank, OF
Rome, will be opea by May |.
Blsckshear shipped forty-tour crates Of
vegetables North during he past week.
Glover & Dunn, a well-known business
firm OF Brunswick, will dissolve partner
ship NAV /.
The regular April term OF Sumter Su-
perior Court will convene next Monday,
April IL.
A new liquor still has been established
near Paschal. Preston Maund is the pro-
prietor OF il.
The Central Hotel at Rome was sold
Wednesday for $4,000. II was bought
BY Mrs. RawIins.
The taxpayers Of Athens are getting
very tired OF paying tue schooling OF six
or seven hundred negro children.
During the past week there were
brought South, on the q. J. II 5. II. r.,
ii, 400 dozens OF eggs and 500 chickens.
a. A. Fleetwood, OF the Blackshear
Georgian has given up his circuit, sur
rendered his credentials and is therefore
no longer minister OF the gospel.
f. NJ. Fuller has established Il truck
farm near Paschal. He will make early
vegetables a specially. He has already
set out over 1900 cabbage plants.
A young man, seventeen years old, At
tended the Middle Georgia Mechanical
and Agricultural College this year who
was feet inches In height and weighed
about $50 pounds. He is now resident
OF Dennis station,
M. g. Logan. Of The Seventeenth district
OF sumter county, says that the larks are
running all the corn fields in That section,
lie thinks that they have done immense
damage TO the young corn. Many fields
Will have to be replanted.
Frank Harveyya colored boy in Macon
county, was too lazy to cut wood last
Saturday and tried 1t sunday morning.
he cut two OF his toes off, aud now saws
That he will try to keep the Sabbath holy
hereafter lest greater evil befails him.
at Athens Joe Cartoons warehouse
has been purchased tor a sash, door and
blind factory. A lumber and wood yard
and brick yard is to be established
Thirty thousand dollars has been paid in,
and plenty OF money is TO be had still IL
needed.
Plains OF Dura, station on the Ameri-
Gus, Preston and Luupkln, near Mag
nolia Springs, is growing asst and putting
On new appearance. New houses are
COINS up, among them a very handsome
residence by Or. B. L. Wise, which cost
him $4,000 or $500.
There was another heavy shipment of
naval stores by special train from Ty-Ty
Tuesday, something near LOCO barrels
being shipped, good portion of the pres
ent seasons production, divided among
the following manufacturers: Coleman Il
Park, w. +. Ford g. Burns and Horne.
The frosts have seriously damaged
truck, and The l. sCOnJe pear crop Is
failure in Pierce thls year. There will
ne few pears only, but unless further
|EDld Injuries the young fruit we will have
half crop or peaches. Scuppernongs
1fe unhurt. Apricots have shed their
<uit.
E DR.. w. A, Carlton, who owns lot of
feet front, corner OF Clayton and Jack
pa streets, at Athens, has plan OF
handsome iron-front three-story building
lat he will have erected this summer.
4hd Will probably give out the contract
a II, with the new opera house. 1t is
Minated that it will cost $4,000.
.em Braswell, of Monroe county, has
n his possession bearded horse, at least
The animal has a moustache. A party
having seen the horse i'll question said he
bad right natural looking moustache
that just c-u-r-l-e-d. This peculiar growth
Of hair on the horses upper Lip is to all
appearances a genuine moustache.
A convention of the Naval Stores Manu-.
facturers Association of Georgia is to he
held at Jesup Monday, April IL. This
convention has been called by the assc-
citation for the purpose OF discu ssing sew
IN
also TO consider bill TO be submitted t.
the Legislature at its session in July
next.
At Ty-Ty GIrdmer and Charlie Benson
have applied to the Superior Court for a
charter for Incorporation for twenty
years. the effect of which Is to manu;ac-
ture and finish yellow pine lumber in all
shapes for market. Their place OF
business will be ut Powlen, in Worth
county, with capital of SIG eco to begin
business with.
Two responsible citizens of Athens
propose That If the City Council will give
them $1,000 per annum they Will take The
streets IN hand and keep them in good
order. They Will sign Il contract for i've
years, and propose the first two wears 10
expend more than the appropriation, but
after that the streets will be In such good
condition that but little will keep them
up. AuSJ Will 10 IueiT Work IN the
spring and summer, and only keep a |
small force on hand during the winter to !
fill up holes.
I. w. Gilmer, OF Toccoa, is the possess
sor OF perhaps the oldest walking stick in
the United States. 1t Is a cane with a
brownish appearance. An ivory head, |
which mas grown yellow with age, adorns |
the top OF 1t. 1t is bound to the stick |
with silver band, on which is engraved |
the words, benjamin Shapley, 1898"
making IL lS9 years old. 1t was owred |
hrst by Mr.. Gilmer's grandmother's great
who came over from Scotland
IN the latter part OF the seventeenth CEN
Jury aud settled in Boston, Mass.
Last week, near Prices bridge, IN
Chattooga county, during the night,
James johnson awOke and was getting
up, as 1T was about daylight. and found
that his little child, 3 years old, was dead.
fbe child was in good health the day be-
ore. lie went over TO his sister-in-law's,
Mrs. j. ID. Vann, to get her TO 20 over
here. She went over and was tbere
awhile and went home, She was horrified
IN going home to find that ner little 3.
year-old child was dead also. She does
not know whether her child was dead
whom she left home or not.
After the adoption OF the stock law in
nat district by an act OF the Legislature,
10 1885, the City Council OF Hawkinsviue
PASSED an ordinance prohibiting the run
ii IN